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Ex-President Yoon collected $795,000 in inmate funds over 8 months: lawmaker

Lawmakers said the deposits came in 27,410 transactions and far exceeded the 4 million won inmate balance limit.

Summary by The Korea Times
Jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol collected over 1.2 billion won ($795,000) in inmate funds during eight months of detention through last month...

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Yoon Received 1.2 Billion Won in Communicated Funds During 8 Months of Detention, 4.6 Times the President's Annual Salary. It has been revealed that former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial on charges of being the ringleader of an insurrection, received over 1.2 billion won in commissary funds during the past eight months of his detention at the Seoul Detention Center. This information was submitt…

It has been confirmed that former President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first trial on charges of being the ringleader of an insurrection, received a massive sum exceeding 1.2 billion won in prison funds alone. According to materials submitted by the Ministry of Justice to the office of Rep. Park Eun-jung of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party on the 1st, former President Yoon

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The Korea Times broke the news in Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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